Duke lacrosse rape hoax

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outYou know, I keep going back to Duke LaCrosse.

Everybody judged those young men years ago and said they did it, and then we found out that that gal made the whole thing up.

By the way, today she's behind bars for, I think, killing her boyfriend.

She already said these guys were guilty right off the bat.

Yep.

Um, look, I lived through Duke lacrosse.

I knew a lot of the guys on the team.

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Rich white guys, that's all they care about, just like the Duke case.

Just-

Gotta get those rich white kids

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Right when you think that this is-

That, that nut on the Duke case, if nobody remembers that a long time ago, I mean, it had Al Sharpton, and they were, "No justice, no peace," and it was the biggest story in the country.

And they tried to get these Duke lacrosse players indicted for rape, and she made the whole thing up.

The Cornell Seven were saved by their text messages.

Without them, they're basically the Duke Lacrosse Team.

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Oh my God.

We have to look at evidence.

If we go all the way back to the Duke LaCrosse case, we find that this is true.

If you guys don't remember the Duke LaCrosse case, it's a case where this black stripper went to the LaCrosse frat house, almost like this one.

They got into it.

She said that they assaulted her, come to find out it was all a lie.

Reginald Day.

Now, Mangum claimed that was in self-defense and that murder case followed an attempted murder charge of another boyfriend, Milton Walker, in 2010 before that case was dropped.

But it was the Duke Lacrosse case that Mangum is still perhaps best remembered for.

We will be back with updates in the Cornell Seven case, and also the opposite of updates.

We're gonna go way back, starting with Duke lacrosse, going to UVA, and more.

We're even gonna hit Columbia, uh, the, the infamous mattress girl story.

Then we're gonna talk about Crystal Pike, and we're gonna talk about this trend of people going no contact with their families.

This was before they changed sex to also include gender identity, which we've talked about many times here as well.

But it changed the way college campuses investigated rape and sexual assault.

It all happened about five years after the infamous Duke lacrosse case.

And if you have not studied the basics of the Duke lacrosse case, you cannot possibly understand, to quote that bro TikToker, "What's happening with men in this country?" Because this was the first of a handful of cases, especially with millennial men, that forged serious resentments, sometimes in healthy ways, sometimes in unhealthy ways, but with justifiable cause because of the way these stories were treated by the media, by the political class, not just Democrats, and then also by the broader left.

But there's also many, many other questions we have.

And joining me today to discuss this is retired nypd sergeant professor at albertus magnus college in connecticut attorney at law welcome to the show professor mike geary welcome mike hey bill good afternoon thank you for having me on so mike you know one of the things that you know everyone's screaming about this case now and it does have some of the Same type of people that reared their ugly heads in the Duke Lacrosse case, which we all know what the outcome of that was.

What we need here is the truth.

And how are we going to get the truth? Well, evidence, a timeline, interviews with witnesses.

What has to be done is an investigation and fairness, both to the victim and to the accused.

And when you get radicals on the campus protesting this, and again, if this happened, and if they're going to go forward, and if they do get the evidence to indict some of these, what's been known as the Cornell Seven, right? then yes, they have to get a fair trial.

And right now, this just sort of smells like the Duke lacrosse team about how they were almost flaked by the Duke University faculty, by the Mike Nifong, who was the prosecutor in that case, who was running for re-election, who got disbarred after the evidence truly came out.

You've got to tread very carefully, Letitia James.

A prosecutor's duty is to seek justice, not choose a side.

This feels dangerously similar to the Mike Nifong scandal in the Duke lacrosse case.

Sean Davis joined the conversation and made a great point.

This has already become a moral panic.

Though he argues the public has recognized the story as flimsy far faster than in earlier scandals like Duke Lacrosse or the Rolling Stone rape hoax, that doesn't protect these defendants from a prosecutor determined to indict them anyway.

Davis also pushed a larger cultural argument.

He says too many people make sexual choices, regret them, and then try to retcon the situation into rape.